This is in Deadman’s Hand instance in Coast of Ardashir. These are the boss fights at the end of The Weakling, the Warrior and Wanton quest. I fought Vasparaya (or whatever her name is) and figured that fight out. Haven’t fought Acallia yet. I’m playing a lvl. 65 Ranger
I’ve actually found Drostan and his rats the easiest of the 3 fights.
1st - go in with 2 or 3 max health potions (the biggest you can get for your level) and pop the first before you start the fight, then just keep doing them as the cooldown clears.
Ranger vs rats drop your leg trap and fire trap and let the little buggers burn and just hammer the heck out of Drostan. The big health pot should cover any damage the rats do.
Just did him on a Guard with defense stance with both defense addons active. For him I just used the health pot and totally ignored the rats.
Not totally sure, but I think if you don’t kill all the rats I don’t think the 2nd wave shows up.
If I remember correctly Acallia creates a wax golem that walks towards the far wall. If it gets there you die. So for that one as a ranger, do just like with the rats except run TO her, drop the 2 traps and then fall back to the back wall to continue your shooting. You’ll probably have to put some shots into the golem to finish it off before you can shift back to Acallia.
She’ll do another wax golem later and just repeat. One of the reasons you try to trap her as far away as possible is to give you the room to shoot her as she moves towards the back wall.
I think for both the official way involves using those levers to the side of the ship. I never could get those to work like described so I just ironman through instead.
Thanks for the info! I don’t have the leg trap, will have to pick that up. It’s actually Vesparaya (still don’t know if that’s correct) that has the wax dummy. With Accalia apparently you use the ballistae on her.
In that case the other one uses wind waves or something and continues to cast them even while you’re attacking her.
I did whoever on my Guard and couldn’t figure it out so I killed the instance, waited til the next day and went back in. Kept doing that til I finally got Drostan.
What do you do if the rats drop you anyway?
Sin in mixed blues and Brittle Blade epics, and they stun and drop me even w/Daggamalt in approx 5 sec, even on normal mode. I can spend gold and try better Daggamalt (white/red bottle) but the rate of damage will outstrip it, from similar experience having tried that w/other boss fights (could nvr get Isle ape below 90% a decade ago, and 95% now; Aiaji in FC can’t get below 40% even w/the better Daggamalt, Accalia was a lost cause, faction missions w/too many enemies superior Dagga only sometimes helps..).
Drostan is ofc immune to CC, like every boss, which intentionally screws CC-reliant classes, like sins; FC designs these for top-geared tanks and goes out of their way to cheat everyone else.
Somehow, I beat all 3 bosses 14 yrs ago, IIRC, but c/n remember how, now.
Accalia you are supposed to ballista (d/n work enough for me: she still wins vs all toons).
Vas, my necro killed her by using 6 bleed-wound pets w/1 berserked, and a dmg buff magus, and I think she killed Dros 1x w/vamp-heal pets, IIRC, but sin is just dying despite having waaaay better gear. Necro was able to let pets kill him while she legged it (Necro = EZ Mode), but Sin can’t.
Levers along walls used to do someth yrs ago, but do nothing now, when tried.
How does a Sin beat these, when CCs are blocked, armor is worst for the class in game, and you are melee? IIRC I d/n use n00b spec (DWW+GB build) vs these on Sin a decade+ ago, so was comboing, yet still managed to win, but idea how, now.
Never could play an assassin in melee, always ended up using them as a crossbow archer toon so sorry, I’ve no clue how to beat the final boss with one.
Understood. Thx anyway.
Have no idea how I beat any of em w/main back in the day, tho do remeber Accalia was a painful fight. Maybe I used n00b spec. Was avoiding going back to it even tho I have the spec page easily available, as n00b spec reduces limit-testing yourself for combo/positioning skill improvement, due to it being mainly insta-cast 1 button bursts of max dmg, and having access to AoD keeping you alive.
For the record, even with better heal pots and reverting back to n00b spec (Avatar of Death/Death Whirlwind/Grave’s Blossom), as a Sin, this is still damned hard. Even if you survive the first wave of rats, Dros just recasts them a few sec later, and you die from the second wave.
DPS just isn’t there to drop him and his rats both fast enough unless already max geared, and if you try to fight him and rats together in his hidey-hole to max out efficiency (since Sin is the shortest range in-game), you easily mis-target rats and die, and end up w/tombstone on his end of the ship, so either have to re-fight with the penalty or have to click on the stone while in combat.
I have finally managed to beat Accalia (very tough) and Vas (easiest by far) via going back to n00b spec, which pushed it just over the edge, but, unless you are well geared and/or a tank or ranged (Necro walks this one easy, ofc), you may have a rough road vs Dros.
EDIT: somehow, RIGHT after I posted this, I finally beat him 2 or 3 tries later after endless amts of no go w/my Sin. RNG, as he FINALLY came out of his cubby for a patch, and I somehow survived 2 rat waves. Was still real close. Also, for some Funcom reason, Dull Pain refused to work even w/full shards.